Mention the addition of the deny-rsync script, and tweak some comments.

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 556cec7..9497e0c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,11 +39,14 @@ Changes since 3.0.2:
     - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
       a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
 
     - Fixed a problem with how a destination path with a trailing slash or
       a trailing dot-dir was compared against the daemon excludes.
 

+    - Fixed the sending of large (size > 16GB) files when talking to an older
+      rsync (protocols < 30):  we now use a compatible block size limit.
+

     - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
       (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
       checksum struct over the wire.
 
     - If a file's length is so huge that we overflow a checksum buffer count
       (i.e. several hundred TB), warn the user and avoid sending an invalid
       checksum struct over the wire.
 

-    - If an source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded
+    - If a source arg is excluded, --relative no longer adds the excluded

       arg's implied dirs to the transfer.  This fix also made the exclude
       check happen in the better place in the sending code.
 
       arg's implied dirs to the transfer.  This fix also made the exclude
       check happen in the better place in the sending code.
 


@@ -59,6 +62,12 @@ Changes since 3.0.2:
 
     - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
 
 
     - The description of the --inplace option was improved.
 

+  EXTRAS:
+
+    - Added a new script in the support directory, deny-rsync, which allows
+      an admin to (temporarily) replace the rsync command with a script that
+      sends an error message to the remote client via the rsync protocol.
+

   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
     - Fixed a testcase failure if the tests are run as root and made some